Clothes-pin.



T. BOWMAN CLOTHES PIN.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 6, 1914.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 24, 191?.

Application filed March 6, 1914. Serial No. 822,951. A

To all whom it may concern:

Be it'known that I, TURA BOWMAN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Uehling, in the county of Dodge and State of Nebraska, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Clothes-Pins; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to new and useful improvements in clothes pins and resides in the provision of a simple and inexpensive clothes pin that will clamp and support clothes on a line in a reliable manner and which is constructed in such a way that the operator may hang and take off the clothes with relation to the line without having to touch the clothes with his hands.

An important object of my invention is to provide a clothes pin which comprises a novel form of clamp cooperating with a hook so that the clamp may be hung from a clothes line and support clothes in such a way that in cold weather the clothes will not freeze upon the line.

Another important object of my invention is to provide a clamp to clamp the clothes that is of a novel construction and designed to be readily and easily locked and unlocked.

My invention further aims to improve clothes pins so as to render them more practical, simple as to construction, reliable and efficient, cheap to manufacture and more commercially desirable.

The above and additional objects are accomplished by such means as are illustrated in the accompanying drawings, described in the following specification and then more particularly pointed out as claimed.

With reference to the drawings, wherein I have illustrated the preferred embodiment of my invention as it is reduced to practice, and throughoutthe several views of which similar reference numerals designate corresponding parts:

Figure l is a side elevation showing my clothes pin with the clamp in closed position,

Fig. 2 is a side elevation showing my improved clothes pin with the clamp in open position, and

Fig. 3 is a front elevation of my improved clothes pin showing the same as it would appear in closed position and hanging on the line.

The clamp 1 comprises a relatively stationary jaw 4 having an enlarged offset portion 5 at its upper end. The enlarged offset I portion 5 receives the free ends of the wire of which the hook 2 is composed adjacent the upper portion thereof. A pair of apl proximately rectangular and preferably metallic plates 6 are secured by suitable fastening 7 upon the sides of the enlarged offset portion 5 and are 'apertured to receive the ends of the wire comprising the hook 2.

These hinge urest extend downwardly below the lower edge of the offset enlarged portion 5 of the stationary jaw 4 and have mounted between the extended portion a pivoted jaw 8. A pivot pin 8 is inserted through the plates 6 and upper end of the jaw 8 as is clearly shown in Fig. 1.

As a means for insuring the gripping action of the jaws at and 8 I provide a transverse rib or' protuberance 9 adjacent but spaced from the lower end of the pivoted jaw 8 and upon the inner face thereof. This rib or protuberance 9 is designed to fit Within a recess or depression 10 formed adjacent the lower end of the relatively stationary jaw 4. The rib or protuberance 9 fits snugly within the depression or recess 10 and serves to clamp the clothes in a reliable and firm manner.

As a means for locking the jaws in clamped position, I provide a locking sleeve 11 that is slidably mounted upon the jaws 4t and 8 and designed to be moved downwardly toward the lower end of the aws to hold the jaws in clamped position and to be moved upwardly adjacent to the enlarged offset portion 5 when the jaws are to be opened' This locking collar 11 is shaped to conform to the shape of the aws 4: and 8 approximately and is prevented from slipping off the jaws since the jaws are enlarged adjacent their lower ends as will be clearly seen with reference to the drawings.

The jaws 4 and 8 are tapered and have their small ends pivoted. This arrangement prevents the accidental derangement of the locking sleeve.

In operation the clothes to be hung are clamped between the jaws 4i and 8 and the hook 2 is positioned over the clothes line.

It will be readily seen that I have provided a simple and efiectual clothes pin which will enable the clothes to be readily clamped and hung upon the line in such away that the operator does not have to touch the clothes with his hands and that the clothes are prevented from freezing to the line as is often the case in cold weather.

It will also be noted that my clothes pin is simple as to construction and capable of being cheaply manufactured.

In practice, I have found that the form of my invention, illustrated in the drawings and referred to in the above description, as the preferred embodiment, is the most efiicient and practical; yet realizing that the conditions concurrent with the adoption of my device will necessarily vary, I desire to emphasize the fact that various minor changes in details of construction, proportion and arrangement of parts may be resorted to, when required, without sacrificing any of the advantages of my invention, as set forth.

hat is claimed is A wooden clothes pin comprising a relatively stationary jaw, a head formed integrally with the upper end of the jaw and projecting beyond the inner side thereof, metal plates applied to the lateral sides of the head and having a width equal to that of the head, said plates being longer than the head to overlie the jaw at and beyond the connection between the jaw and head, rivets passing through the plates and head adjacent the upper ends thereof, a rivet passing through the plates and jaw below the connection between the jaw and head, the lower inner corners of the plates extending below the under side of the head, a relatively movable jaw pivoted to and between the lower inner corners of the plates,

a sleeve slidably arranged on the jaw, and a suspending member pivoted to the head and plates at a point above and between said first named rivets, the plates preventing the pivot of the member from splitting or having any wear'uponthe head and the plates strengthening the connection between the relatively stationary jaw and head.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

TURA BOWMAN.

CHARLES RoMBEne'.

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